Hi all, Thanks for the suggestions. I realize it'll probably be too slow to utilize the memory. The Sun Blade Systems are on a gigabit network with an Dell XPS 733 MHz (everything is gigabit) which has the MATLAB and Mathematica licenses. We are currently running Octave and Maxima on our Sparc64 machines, but we have a special need for matlab and mathematica (There are just some special functions that these programs have that the open source counterparts haven't implemented yet.) We do hope to however fully migrate to Octave/Maxima in the future.
I was just curious, but how about NUMA for Linux or BSD mmap? I don't know much about them, but I'm sure someone here knows how to implement mmap on openbsd for remote memory access. I realize NUMA performs best when you have infiniband around, which we don't, but consider this an experiment. The Sun blade systems are all already web servers which have allocated 2 GB to memcached, but still have so much more to give. I thought maybe this was a useful way to use that extra RAM. What is the status of compat_svr4 on sparc64 by the way? I had contemplated that option, since I know we have Solaris binaries lying around. Thanks, Vivek On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Matthew Szudzik <mszud...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:30:56AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: >> As for the actual question of getting Mathematica and/or Matlab to run >> on your sparc64 under OpenBSD, what about using SysV-R4 emulation with >> the available Solaris binaries? >> >> At least with Mathematica, linux binaries are only available for x86 >> (32 and 64 bit), but they do provide 64 bit UltraSPARC executables. > > OpenBSD's compat_svr4 and compat_linux binary emulations do not support > 64-bit processors. So, you'll have to find some other solution for > running Mathematica or Matlab binaries on your machine. > > Incidentally, I'm running Mathematica on i386 using compat_linux. There > are a few non-trivial steps involved in the installation--contact me if > you want the details.
